Improved hinge for gates



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JOB SWEET,

or DiizeA'rUR,v MICHIGAN.

Leners Patent N0.95,393,' dated september'as, 1869.

IMPROVE-:n HINGE Fon GATES.

The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

being had to the accompanying drawings, and to'thef'f letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, in which the figure in the annexed drawingrepresents a side elevation of my gate.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a gate with a hinge brmed with an iron rod, the lower end of which is spiral or auger-shaped, and working in a'slotted metal plate, and .the upper end playing in a strap', as hereinafter set forth.

A represents agate, constructed in the usual man- B B designate the uprights, connected by bars C O. To said bars the slats e e e are nailed.

G Gf represent the gate-posts, which are mortised into sill E.

The post Gis eut away on itsinner .surface about two-thirds of its width, leaving the remaining third as a rest for the gate when it is closed.

H represents an iron rod, passing-in a vertical position through bars C C, the said rod having its lower end formed spil-ally, and entering a slot in the' metal plate j; .which is confined to sill E.

'Ihe upper end of H plays in a hole in strap g, `the said strap being secured by bolts to post G', and then bent at a right angle to receive the end of rod H.

The advantage of my gate is that itis self-shutting,

from the faet that the centre of gravity in the rod H .What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-.

ent, is-

A gate, constructed with a rod-hinge, the lower endv of which is made in a spiral form, and operating in aslotted plate, as and'for the purposesetforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own,

I aix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

- JOB SWEET.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. TUCKER,

C. E. GALLIGAN. 

